Life is hard enough without choices like this: whether to watch Dan Burn going through the motions with little to do at the back as Newcastle dismantle Southampton or Jim Old’s Spirits Bay, ridden purely for the place money, running … Read More »

I want to devote this edition of the Roundup to Mike Futter, who died last week after suffering a stroke 11 years ago. Some of you will remember him through his association with Monty’s Pass, who landed a £1 million … Read More »

I was interested to hear Paul Townend talking with Lydia Hislop and Ruby Walsh about King George VI Chase winner Banbridge over the weekend. The obvious impression from the horse’s style of racing and form is that he could struggle … Read More »

We had a feast of top-class racing over the Christmas holiday, giving rise to some notable fluctuations in the ante-post markets for Cheltenham. Unlike this time last year, when about half the races had a Willie Mullins horse at the … Read More »

Well now, we can probably all agree that the Load of Mischief should be a pub and, if so, our sort of place. In fact, these days it’s a private house in Blewbury, its pub days a thing of the … Read More »

If everything goes according to plan … and in this game we have to accept things can change at the last minute … it looks as if Lossiemouth will meet Constitution Hill in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton on Thursday. … Read More »